Examples from literature. 1  Catalepsy is produced by a sudden sharp noise, or by the sight of a brightly gleaming object. 2  For the moment, I thought he had been seized with a fit of catalepsy. 3  He hurried back into the room and found his patient in a state of catalepsy.  I was in a kind of conscious catalepsy.
Beijing's 2017 population is now estimated at 22,063,000. In 1950, the population of Beijing was 1,671,000. Beijing has grown by 1,679,000 in the last year, which represents a 8.20% change. These population estimates and projections come from the latest revision of the UN World Urbanization Prospects.
This is greater than the highest density major urban area today, Dhaka (Bangladesh) at 90,000 per square mile or 35,000 per square kilometer. Today's urban Beijing may have an overall population density one-eighth that of the 1950s.